I don't know why but this reminded me of when I was setting up the speech-to-text ability on Windows XP. To do this you have to read different text for the machine to 'understand' you later. One of the texts you read is a part from The Fall of the House of Usher, why uses a unique description for parts of the house. One part gets mentioned a few times meaning you have to say several times the following phrase: "eye-like windows"
I think shareware isn't a good analogy. The times I've used shareware, I've downloaded it, used it for awhile, and moved on. In the cases it was a program that was really cool and I thought about sending in the 5 bucks, I never bothered to because it meant getting out the checkbook or getting a money order and... etc. etc. I don't even pay my phone bill on time. Of course this was shareware before the internet, so it may now be easier to send the money. I did it with CoolEdit2000, they made it real easy for me to give them money.
That's really what we are talking about. We are a society that throws money in pools of water for crying out load. Why? Because it is easy to do.
Since we are talking hypothetical, the cost per track is the core of the discussion. I agree the cost should be variable, based on many different factors. Length shouldn't necessarily be a key factor, though. I don't want bands doing 15 minute intros to their songs to boost price.
I'm equally skeptical that people will pony up money when they can still easily get it for free, BUT I have a Lockian sense that people will choose to do what is legally and ethically correct more often than not. Which means if an easy to use service, with a simple User Interface were to appear which was tied to an account (not a credit card, but an account that money can be deposited into in order to control willy-nilly downloading), offered free streaming music a la spinner, offered oddities like MP3.com, allowed artists/record labels to offer tracks for free, and was a no brainer to use - people would use it.
I am the type of person who listens to Spinner, hears a song I like, goes to the new Morpheus and looks for it. I may be atypical, but I don't think I am. I think a lot of people would do the same if given the opportunity. Hear a song on the radio and have the option to buy it immediately . . . it is a great sales strategy. Music stores do it, they play stuff that they think people will buy once they hear it.
Get the service software bundled with PCs with the downloading option disabled until an account is activated, people will still get the radio ability which can have little ads between songs letting people know that if they really liked they song, they can download it.
You raise a valid point. And to be honest, if I had a nickle for every chatroom I was in where someone logged in and said they were going to off themselves, I'd have probably $2.50.
I do believe Sony should lighten up a bit and help the mother get some basic information on what has happened to her son, not out of legal responsibility, but because losing a child is a very difficult thing and she needs something to help put things in order. There is a lot they could tell her without violating privacy, such as which servers those character names belong.
Dude, you aren't watching the right shows. Chicago CAN-19 has some great shows, like the guy who interviews local bands and his first question is always 'so do you guys like to get baked?'
This raises one of the key points of why pirating occurs. Someone just wants to explore a program to see what it does or use it for very brief periods of time. I'm all for Lite Editions that cut out advanced features and just offers a stripped down utilitarian app for a significantly reduced price. I bet Photoshop say a decline in pirating when they came out with their cheap LE.
Piracy will never go away, but by making items reasonably priced from the start, those of us who'd rather buy the program would.
* Track specific user comments (There are a couple of people who put thought in and I would like to be able highlight there comments or have them return in my sort no matter there moderated comment value)
Yes, yes, oh my god yes.
Let's face it, some people here are brilliant and I would love to be able to track there comments in a simple fashion. Sort of a Personal Moderation System, so I can select those people I think are worthwhile reading and give them a bump in their score so I can find them easier.
Sadly, as the initial article states, the ads are about to get much more intrusive. The odd thing is I am more inclined to click on the slashdot ads because they actually pertain to my interests. Funny how advertising works when you bother to advertise to the correct market segment.
You may have a very valid point. It took Prohibition for the country to realize it can't pass laws against common behavior and expect the nation to comply.
Passing these laws will only highlight how common minor transgressions against copyright are.
I also believe you will find a surge in Independent artists, filmmakers and the like willing to have their stuff distributed. With the rise of the DV filmmakers, the tech world will begin to take a significant chunk of money from MPRAA/RIAA types. Let capitalism do its thing and let the markets decide which is successful - media that leads to lawbreaking or media that gives you the power to use and dispose of your property in any fashion you desire so long as you do not financially or physcially harm another individual.
This is a very good point. I won't ever be a game programmer/designer but I have had the itch once or twice to educate myself on the subject and every book I pick up is either overly simple that it is completely worthless even as a stepping stone, just out of reach for my level of comprehension, or so far above my head just opening the text is akin to reading several pages from the Necronomicon on my sanity.
A nice intro book bundled with a simple toolset would be a great thing for dopes like myself to futz around with so I can pretend that I am going to be the next Meier.
Obvously you didn't pay attention to what was written. The post said people who pay 20% MORE on Ebay are morons. If you are getting deals, you are not a moron.
The average voter/citizen has almost no interest in comparing an operating system that they don't understand with an operating system they've never heard of.
You are absolutely correct. I can guarantee my parents and my siblings don't care about what system the government runs, just so long as they can get their permits/licenses/social security checks/etc quickly and with minimum fuss. That means the candidate can focus purely on saving money. It is a quick and easy Talking Point. "If elected, I will oversee an overhaul of technical systems, implementing tried and true systems which will save the taxpayers [x] amount a year."
Empire Strikes Back has been hailed as the better of the original trilogy but didn't Lucas put in Billy Dee Williams for a similar reason he is using 'NSync?
For crying out loud, just because someone is appearing in the movie doesn't change the tone or nature of the movie. They aren't going to be a Boy Band of Jedi Knights. They get to be background actors who get fried by Battle Droids.
Don't forget it also offers a streamline IRC client. Trillian really is the best option right now with a terrific price (read: free) but please donate a few bucks if possible.
Out of frustration with certain users who can't keep their passwords to our three clearly seperate systems straigt, wrongly suggest to them to come up with a password for each system and then add a number to it each time it needs to be changed.
I admit it is wrong, but those users never call back about forgotten passwords.
For the most part, though, my users are pretty good with their passwords - so many use a combination of numbers and letters that I am sometimes amazed, amazed because these are the same people who have problems remembering which drives are on the server and which are on the machine in front of them
I know of one school in particular, the school my boss sends her kid to, that has benefited tremendously. My boss is a Microsoft devotee and has scoffed at the Free Software movement, until she went to a school meeting and realized the computer lab that was donated (just the systems and OS nothing else) wasn't up and running yet. The reason was the school didn't have the money for Microsoft Office.
Long story short, she told me, I pointed her to StarOffice and a few other apps that are readily available. It wasn't a difficult sell, because it was the difference between getting use out of the computers or just teaching Windows. The school wouldn't have 'collapsed' without the free software and they would have gotten the money for the applications next year, but now they can use that money to implement a replacement program for the systems they already have.
All of this goes back to the fact that there is a bias against Free licenses on software. My boss always considered them to be amateurish, less reliable, than the NAME BRAND software. Not anymore.
Will it be the same without Chairman Kaga? I think not. Iron Chef was about cooking as opera, a battle of honorable peers, guided by an eccentric man with a taste for something different.
IC-USA loses that. The battles with Bobby Flay were horrible because the battles lacked the dignity of the other ones. Who didn't feel for the young Iron Chef Italian when he lost to the Wine Steward? That is pathos. William Shatner gooning at the camera won't be very appealing.
This is an incorrect use of Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor dictates that each event be looked at as if it were in a vacuum. The simplest explanation is the engine fell off causing the plane to crash.
But as H.L. Mencken said, for every problem there is a solution that is both simple and wrong.
Until further evidence, though, it is better to approach this as a 'normal' air disaster while posting a Lemur to watch for any other threats. This is what the government has done, New York has gone into emergency mode (good idea) but nationally we need to see that this is just like any other air disaster - saddening but not an attack.
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Your company is wasting money.
I don't know why but this reminded me of when I was setting up the speech-to-text ability on Windows XP. To do this you have to read different text for the machine to 'understand' you later. One of the texts you read is a part from The Fall of the House of Usher, why uses a unique description for parts of the house. One part gets mentioned a few times meaning you have to say several times the following phrase: "eye-like windows"
I think shareware isn't a good analogy. The times I've used shareware, I've downloaded it, used it for awhile, and moved on. In the cases it was a program that was really cool and I thought about sending in the 5 bucks, I never bothered to because it meant getting out the checkbook or getting a money order and ... etc. etc. I don't even pay my phone bill on time. Of course this was shareware before the internet, so it may now be easier to send the money. I did it with CoolEdit2000, they made it real easy for me to give them money.
That's really what we are talking about. We are a society that throws money in pools of water for crying out load. Why? Because it is easy to do.
Since we are talking hypothetical, the cost per track is the core of the discussion. I agree the cost should be variable, based on many different factors. Length shouldn't necessarily be a key factor, though. I don't want bands doing 15 minute intros to their songs to boost price.
I'm equally skeptical that people will pony up money when they can still easily get it for free, BUT I have a Lockian sense that people will choose to do what is legally and ethically correct more often than not. Which means if an easy to use service, with a simple User Interface were to appear which was tied to an account (not a credit card, but an account that money can be deposited into in order to control willy-nilly downloading), offered free streaming music a la spinner, offered oddities like MP3.com, allowed artists/record labels to offer tracks for free, and was a no brainer to use - people would use it.
I am the type of person who listens to Spinner, hears a song I like, goes to the new Morpheus and looks for it. I may be atypical, but I don't think I am. I think a lot of people would do the same if given the opportunity. Hear a song on the radio and have the option to buy it immediately . . . it is a great sales strategy. Music stores do it, they play stuff that they think people will buy once they hear it.
Get the service software bundled with PCs with the downloading option disabled until an account is activated, people will still get the radio ability which can have little ads between songs letting people know that if they really liked they song, they can download it.
You raise a valid point. And to be honest, if I had a nickle for every chatroom I was in where someone logged in and said they were going to off themselves, I'd have probably $2.50.
I do believe Sony should lighten up a bit and help the mother get some basic information on what has happened to her son, not out of legal responsibility, but because losing a child is a very difficult thing and she needs something to help put things in order. There is a lot they could tell her without violating privacy, such as which servers those character names belong.
Dude, you aren't watching the right shows. Chicago CAN-19 has some great shows, like the guy who interviews local bands and his first question is always 'so do you guys like to get baked?'
This raises one of the key points of why pirating occurs. Someone just wants to explore a program to see what it does or use it for very brief periods of time. I'm all for Lite Editions that cut out advanced features and just offers a stripped down utilitarian app for a significantly reduced price. I bet Photoshop say a decline in pirating when they came out with their cheap LE.
Piracy will never go away, but by making items reasonably priced from the start, those of us who'd rather buy the program would.
* Track specific user comments (There are a couple of people who put thought in and I would like to be able highlight there comments or have them return in my sort no matter there moderated comment value)
Yes, yes, oh my god yes.
Let's face it, some people here are brilliant and I would love to be able to track there comments in a simple fashion. Sort of a Personal Moderation System, so I can select those people I think are worthwhile reading and give them a bump in their score so I can find them easier.
Or something.
Sadly, as the initial article states, the ads are about to get much more intrusive. The odd thing is I am more inclined to click on the slashdot ads because they actually pertain to my interests. Funny how advertising works when you bother to advertise to the correct market segment.
You may have a very valid point. It took Prohibition for the country to realize it can't pass laws against common behavior and expect the nation to comply.
Passing these laws will only highlight how common minor transgressions against copyright are.
I also believe you will find a surge in Independent artists, filmmakers and the like willing to have their stuff distributed. With the rise of the DV filmmakers, the tech world will begin to take a significant chunk of money from MPRAA/RIAA types. Let capitalism do its thing and let the markets decide which is successful - media that leads to lawbreaking or media that gives you the power to use and dispose of your property in any fashion you desire so long as you do not financially or physcially harm another individual.
This is a very good point. I won't ever be a game programmer/designer but I have had the itch once or twice to educate myself on the subject and every book I pick up is either overly simple that it is completely worthless even as a stepping stone, just out of reach for my level of comprehension, or so far above my head just opening the text is akin to reading several pages from the Necronomicon on my sanity.
A nice intro book bundled with a simple toolset would be a great thing for dopes like myself to futz around with so I can pretend that I am going to be the next Meier.
Give me Cathy Rogers ANYDAY OF THE WEEK! Intelligent women are a turn on!
Obvously you didn't pay attention to what was written. The post said people who pay 20% MORE on Ebay are morons. If you are getting deals, you are not a moron.
The average voter/citizen has almost no interest in comparing an operating system that they don't understand with an operating system they've never heard of.
You are absolutely correct. I can guarantee my parents and my siblings don't care about what system the government runs, just so long as they can get their permits/licenses/social security checks/etc quickly and with minimum fuss. That means the candidate can focus purely on saving money. It is a quick and easy Talking Point. "If elected, I will oversee an overhaul of technical systems, implementing tried and true systems which will save the taxpayers [x] amount a year."
Join a party!? Dear lord, that means actually standing up for what I believe in instead of trolling discussion groups with my opinions.
Join a party! As soon as I do, I'll probably be labelled and I HATE labels.
Join a party! For crying out loud, it just politics, its not like it effects my life or anything.
Join a party! Can't I just continue to thumb my nose at the world and hope they get the message and do what I want them to?
Empire Strikes Back has been hailed as the better of the original trilogy but didn't Lucas put in Billy Dee Williams for a similar reason he is using 'NSync?
For crying out loud, just because someone is appearing in the movie doesn't change the tone or nature of the movie. They aren't going to be a Boy Band of Jedi Knights. They get to be background actors who get fried by Battle Droids.
Don't forget it also offers a streamline IRC client. Trillian really is the best option right now with a terrific price (read: free) but please donate a few bucks if possible.
Anyone else think this is teh 21st Century version of the Titanic?
It was built to secure the data of the world.
It was built to withstand natural disasters.
It was built to withstand armored assault.
One man would bring it down.
One man would free the information.
One man - Lord Legba!
Coming to a theater near you this summer.
Out of frustration with certain users who can't keep their passwords to our three clearly seperate systems straigt, wrongly suggest to them to come up with a password for each system and then add a number to it each time it needs to be changed.
I admit it is wrong, but those users never call back about forgotten passwords.
For the most part, though, my users are pretty good with their passwords - so many use a combination of numbers and letters that I am sometimes amazed, amazed because these are the same people who have problems remembering which drives are on the server and which are on the machine in front of them
I know of one school in particular, the school my boss sends her kid to, that has benefited tremendously. My boss is a Microsoft devotee and has scoffed at the Free Software movement, until she went to a school meeting and realized the computer lab that was donated (just the systems and OS nothing else) wasn't up and running yet. The reason was the school didn't have the money for Microsoft Office.
Long story short, she told me, I pointed her to StarOffice and a few other apps that are readily available. It wasn't a difficult sell, because it was the difference between getting use out of the computers or just teaching Windows. The school wouldn't have 'collapsed' without the free software and they would have gotten the money for the applications next year, but now they can use that money to implement a replacement program for the systems they already have.
All of this goes back to the fact that there is a bias against Free licenses on software. My boss always considered them to be amateurish, less reliable, than the NAME BRAND software. Not anymore.
Will it be the same without Chairman Kaga? I think not. Iron Chef was about cooking as opera, a battle of honorable peers, guided by an eccentric man with a taste for something different.
IC-USA loses that. The battles with Bobby Flay were horrible because the battles lacked the dignity of the other ones. Who didn't feel for the young Iron Chef Italian when he lost to the Wine Steward? That is pathos. William Shatner gooning at the camera won't be very appealing.
This is an incorrect use of Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor dictates that each event be looked at as if it were in a vacuum. The simplest explanation is the engine fell off causing the plane to crash.
But as H.L. Mencken said, for every problem there is a solution that is both simple and wrong.
Until further evidence, though, it is better to approach this as a 'normal' air disaster while posting a Lemur to watch for any other threats. This is what the government has done, New York has gone into emergency mode (good idea) but nationally we need to see that this is just like any other air disaster - saddening but not an attack.
Please Ben, bite the hand that feeds you.
Will we ever see the 'origins' of The Tick?